The second man found dead last week on North Topsail Beach also died as a result of blood loss from a neck wound.

Robert Clinton Shellhammer IV and Christopher William Stewart, both 31 and both of Sneads Ferry, were found dead on the beach by North Topsail Beach Police around 10:40 p.m. July 25 between Ocean Drive and the Village of Stump Sound.

A recently released 911 phone call of the fatal night paints a scene of a woman pleading to strangers for help as her husband died from stab wounds.

The phone call to Onslow County E-911, lasting just more than six and a half minutes, originated that night from Ocean Drive in North Topsail Beach.

The caller said she was standing on the beach when a woman walked up pleading for help

The operator asked the caller if the woman was hurt, and the caller said the woman was bleeding and had an injured hand.

Caller: “She came up saying her husband was stabbed and he’s dead.”

The death certificate lists Shellhammer’s surviving spouse as Bekka Allen.

Stewart’s death certificate said Stewart was never married.

The 911 call continues:

Operator: “Does she know the person that stabbed them? Does she know where they went?”

Caller: “(To woman) He wants to know if you know where the person went. (To operator) She doesn’t know, she doesn’t know.”

Shellhammer’s death certificate, filed Wednesday at the Onslow County Register of Deeds, also lists his immediate cause of death as “exsanguination,” or bleeding out, and the underlying cause was marked as a “stab wound to neck,” according to William Kelly at Onslow Memorial Hospital. Stewart’s official cause of death was also “exsanguination” from an “incised wound to the neck,” according to his death certificate, which was filed Monday evening.

North Topsail Beach officials said Wednesday that they had no new information to release on the investigation.